Software Testing Foundations

This training course covers the fundamental topics that every system and software tester should know. The course provides test engineers and test managers with the essential ideas, processes, tools, and skills for a career as a software testing professional. This intensive tutor-led course improves understanding of software testing and involves theory, examples and hands-on exercises. 

The delegates will receive a detailed and structured compilation of the essential terminology of testing, review process, black-box test methods, white-box testing, experienced-based testing, test monitoring and metrics and the relevant international norms and standards.

This course goes above and beyond the ISTQB curriculum, giving you practical knowledge you can immediately apply to all industries. In addition to the fundamentals of software testing, you will also learn about the relationship of testing to development, benefits and risks of test automation, configuration management and continuous integration while the modern industry trends are taken into the account.

 

Lecturer

Course outline

1. Fundamentals of Testing

   Software context — Why does software fail
   Principles, scope, and focus of testing — What is testing?
   Debugging vs. testing
   Goals of testing
   Fundamental testing process
   The psychology of testing — viewpoints on testing

2. Testing Throughout the Software Development Lifecycle

   Testing and development
   Early testing
   Iterative and traditional development models
   Verification and validation
   Test levels—unit, integration, system, acceptance
   Understanding regression testing and confirmation testing
   Understanding test types

3. Building system

   EPICS, Features and User Stories
   Introduction into UML
   CI pipeline

4. Static Techniques

   What is static testing?
   Reviews, inspections, walkthroughs, etc.
   General review process
   Common types of reviews
   Roles and responsibilities in reviews
   Success factors for reviews
   Limits of reviews
   Understanding static analysis tools
   Reviewing requirements, use cases, specifications, source code, and test cases

5. Test Design Techniques

   Introduction into test design and the design approach
   Types of test design techniques
   Black-box (functional) techniques
   White-box (structural) techniques
   Experience-based techniques
   Selecting the appropriate test technique

6. Test Management

   Team organization
   Roles and responsibilities
   Understanding the test manager
   Understanding the tester
   Test planning and strategy
   Understanding risk
   Goals and Metrics
   Identifying and analyzing the project and product risks
   Configuration management and testing
   Defect/incident classification and management

7. Tool Support for Testing

   Selection process
   Introduction of a tool into organization
   Benefits
   Risks and concerns
   Classifications

8. Building test teams

   Roles and qualifications

9. Test Automation

   Why test automation
   Benefits of the test automation
   Limits of the test automation
   (Acceptance) Test-Driven Development
   Test Automation Quadrants

Key takeaways

• Understand the fundamentals of software testing including key concepts and context, testing principles and test process, and the human factors in testing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles and terminology of software testing for efficient and effective communication with other testers and project stakeholders.
• Explore the relationship of testing to development in the software development lifecycle, compare test levels and test types, and understand the triggers and impact of maintenance testing.
• Understand the value of static testing and learn the most common review types and how to use these approaches to find defects.
• Analyze both functional and non-functional specifications at all test levels for systems.
• Examine test design techniques including black-box testing, white-box testing, and experienced-based testing.
• Write clear and understandable incident reports.
• Get familiar with test management, exploring test organization, test planning, and estimation, configuration management, risk-based testing, defect management, and more.
• Explore tool support for testing including tool selection, benefits, risks, and classifications.

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